Representatives from Eaton Corporation’s Eaton Charitable Fund were on the Greenwood campus of Piedmont Technical College on Dec. 13, 2023, to present a check for $35,000 to support the ABB Collaborative Robots Project in the college’s Engineering Technology Department. Pictured from left: front/bottom row: PTC President Dr. Hope E. Rivers and Eaton HR Manager Jessica James; middle row: PTC Vice...
Approximately 200 students received degrees during two fall commencement ceremonies in December 2023 at Piedmont Technical College (PTC). PTC Alumna Mamie Nicholson, president of the Self Family Foundation, delivered the public leader keynote address at both ceremonies. She took inspiration from the PTC abbreviation letters, encouraging graduates to be Patient, Tenacious, and Compassionate in...
Graduates of Piedmont Technical College's nursing programs were recognized recently at our Fall 2023 term pinning ceremony. Here they appear by county: Abbeville County Ashton Ashley, ADN Zion Dowis, ADN Bethany Stoll, ADN Sierra Stoll, ADN Jocelyn Hozey, LPN Krystal Raines, LPN Anderson County Nicholas Wiles, ADN Porsha Calloway, LPN Whitney Dennis, LPN Angela Richey, LPN Greenville County Iesha...
Theo Lane, District Manager, Govt & Community Relations at Duke Energy Carolinas, stopped by Piedmont Technical College during the recent holiday season to present a check for $1,500 to The Hope Pantry food bank on the college’s Lex Walters Campus-Greenwood. From Left: Theo Lane, PTC President Dr. Hope E. Rivers, PTC Student Life Coordinator Kendra LaGreca, and PTC Foundation Associate Vice...
At Piedmont Technical College’s recent fall commencement exercises, outstanding students were honored for academic achievement as County Award Winners.
Officials from the Greenwood Corvette Club on Dec. 6, 2023, presented a check for $500 to the Piedmont Technical College Foundation to be applied toward the Greenwood Corvette Club Automotive Scholarship. Pictured from left: PTC Automotive Technology Instructor Bill King, Corvette Club Secretary Susan King, PTC Foundation Associate Vice President Fran Wiley, Corvette Club President Doug Timmerman...
The Horticulture Technology Program at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) recently was selected by the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute (ICPI) Foundation for a “Tools for Schools” grant of nearly $8,000 to purchase hardscaping equipment used for training students in concrete paver installation techniques. The ICPI is a trade association representing U.S. and Canadian producers and suppliers...
Piedmont Technical College student Briana Carruth was not going to let anything impede her progress toward a career in the criminal justice field, especially not an uncomfortable knot on the bottom of her right foot, which in March 2021 finally had a name — synovial sarcoma. In an instant, the then-21-year-old from Greenwood was forced to make the impossibly quick decision to amputate her right leg below the knee. It worked, at first, and she was deemed cancer-free. But it came back.
The Columbia Kennel Cub (CKC) presented truly heartfelt gifts recently to Veterinary Technology students at Piedmont Technical College (PTC). On Oct. 2, Kennel Club member Michele Pyle and several colleagues visited the college’s Newberry County Campus to present 24 incoming freshmen Vet Tech students with stethoscopes and calculators to help with their educational costs.
A firefighter’s air supply is of vital importance, and Emily Galloway’s was running very low. Adding to that, she was trapped, wedged in by heavy steel and unable to move. Because she was horizontal on the ground with only her feet visible, her colleagues did not realize she was in trouble. “I couldn’t move my arm to reach my mask and didn’t know how much air was left, but I knew it was low,” she...
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